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Chizik while he was here

Just sitting here and listening to Murph and Andy and they were talking about how fake Chizik was while he was here at ISU while giving interviews. I know we are all suppose to be over him and i think we are, but just when i think back a few years back he really was fake. I'm not sure i ever saw him smile once in Ames. He gave the dumbest answers to media while being interviewed. How could Jamie Pollard be so blind?

Re: Chizik while he was here

Originally Posted by Clones21

Just sitting here and listening to Murph and Andy and they were talking about how fake Chizik was while he was here at ISU while giving interviews. I know we are all suppose to be over him and i think we are, but just when i think back a few years back he really was fake. I'm not sure i ever saw him smile once in Ames. He gave the dumbest answers to media while being interviewed. How could Jamie Pollard be so blind?

Rhoads is the Anti-Chizik.

I love the way he is so honest and straightforward in interviews. I almost want him to be less open because he says so much about how things really are with guys on the team.

Re: Chizik while he was here

I'll admit that he seemed unemotional, but I kind of sensed that he was just a very removed kind of guy. I never thought he was fake when he was here and all the things he said seemed genuine when he said them. Basically, he's a really good liar. We all knew that he would jump ship as soon as he could, but we thought he was going to win and try to turn this program around before he did it. As discussed before, he's a turd sandwich and there's no point in thinking about it anymore.

Re: Chizik while he was here

If you had a chance through Gridiron Club or other means to hear him speak to the faithful in the early days of his tenure you wouldn't be singing that tune. No fault of JP's in the hire, didn't work out for either party, we are in a better situation now with CPR. Not sure why the need to bring up Chiz or bash JP....

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" - Winston Churchill

Re: Chizik while he was here

Why does everyone blame everything on Pollard? Everyone was excited when we hired him and everyone knew he was going to leave once he did good things here. No one thought teams were going to be offering him jobs after going 5-19, not Pollard's fault.

Re: Chizik while he was here

Originally Posted by gocubs2118

Why does everyone blame everything on Pollard? Everyone was excited when we hired him and everyone knew he was going to leave once he did good things here. No one thought teams were going to be offering him jobs after going 5-19, not Pollard's fault.

Because much like blaming everything that went wrong on Saturday on Arnaud (because you just HAVE to pick one man...), the easiest thing to do is to just blame everything that's wrong with ISU athletics on JP. Nevermind that things weren't so great under BVdV or the guys before him, nevermind that the AD budget is in the black and almost self-sufficient (which means we're almost through with taking money from the state to stay afloat) while at the same time building new facilities and giving much needed renovations to existing facilities, nevermind that the overall health of ISU athletics has never been better (30ish ranking in the Director's Cup, highest ever for ISU) and the revenue sports of football and men's basketball are improving. Who has time to educate one's self by doing a little bit of research? It's much easier to be completely naive to what's actually going on with the ISU AD and just look at 4 bad years for football and men's basketball and say, "wow - JP MUST be a horrible AD"...

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